Tag: movies
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The Movies, the Hays Code and the censorship issue–Part III
I have been slow to get to this part of my Hays code obsession, for more than one reason. An important one is that the current US political scene grabbed my attention and distracted me(and might so do again); but the main one is that it seems a difficult part of my, uh, study(!!)and I…
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`The Hays Office, the movies and the censorship issue- Part II
When we left it, the Hays Code was pretty much at the height of its power. This was the 1930’s and 1940’s and though I mentioned a film or two from later, I didn’t go much beyond that time. After WWII it was a different world, just about all around the globe and certainly in…
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The Hays Office, the movies and the censorship issue-Part 1
/ The first thing is to discuss the word “censorship.” What does it mean? We all know it has to do with the suppression of ideas, pictures, writing, etc. We all know that some people are concerned by too much censorship restricting what the public may write, read, see, etc. Others think there should be…
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Saturday thoughts
It is ironic that I chose this time to start a blog. I meant it to offer an opportunity to share some things I had long considered and maybe some new ones. I had no idea I might wind up starting at the time of a terrible world crisis. Here I am all the same…
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